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Glenn Firebaugh Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography College of the Liberal Arts Research Professor 902 Oswald Tower           Department of Sociology The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-6207 Office phone: (814) 865-5001 Fax: (814) 863-7216 firebaug@pop.psu.edu CV

WORKING PAPERS

"Income, Age, and Happiness"

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Sociology, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1976 (minors: Econometrics, Mathematical Models)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Global Income Inequality, Statistical Methods, Globalization, Social Change, Demography

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 2001

Best-Article Prize, Center for the Study of Inequality, Cornell University, 2001, for "Empirics of World Income Inequality" (American Journal of Sociology, May 1999)

Distinction in the Social Sciences Award, Pennsylvania State University, 2000

Continuous funding from the National Science Foundation, 1988-2000, for research projects on social change in the United States, on cohort replacement effects, on economic development in poor nations, and on trends in global income inequality

Summer Faculty, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan (1992-2001); guest instructor, ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany (Nov 2000); visitation committee, Cornell University (1997, 2001), Harvard University (2002)

NIMH Fellow in Quantitative Methods, Indiana University, 1972-1976

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

Editor, American Sociological Review, 1997 - 2000; Deputy Editor, American Sociological Review, 1995 - 1996

Editorial boards – Sociological Methods and Research (1980-1985), American Journal of Sociology (1985-1987), Social Forces (1985-1988), The Sociological Quarterly (1985-1988), ASA Rose Monograph Series (1986-1989), Sociological Methodology (1988-1992), American Sociological Review (1994-1995)

NATIONAL OFFICES

American Sociological Association -- ASA Publications Committee (1996-1999)

ASA Nominations Committee (2000-01); Council, Methodology Section (1994-97)

Chair, Nominations Committee, Methodology Section (1995-96)

Other organizations – Sociological Research Association (elected 1995); Board of Overseers, General Social Surveys (1992-96); Nominations Committee, Eastern Sociological Society (2002)

PUBLICATIONS

The New Geography of Global Income Inequality.  2003. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press.  xiii + 257 pages. 2 maps, 28 tables, 23 figures.

Books

• (Edited) Looking Forward, Looking Back: Continuity and Change at the Turn of the Millennium. Special Millennium Edition of the American Sociological Review (February, 2000).
  
•  Analyzing Repeated Surveys.  (1997).  Sage University Paper Series on Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, no. 07-115.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 

Articles

Firebaugh, G. and Brian Goesling (2004). "Accounting for the Recent Decline in Global Income Inequality." American Journal of Sociology 110 (September): 283-312. [lead article]

Firebaugh, G. (2004). "Does Industrialization No Longer Benefit Poor Countries? A Comment on Arrighi, Silver, and Brewer, 2003."  Studies in Comparative International Development 39 (Spring): 99-105.

Goesling, Brian, and G. Firebaugh (2004). "The Trend in International Health Inequality." Population and Development Review 30 (March): 131-146. 

Firebaugh, G.  (2003). "The New Geography of Income Distribution in the World." In Walter Müller and Stefani Scherer, editors.  Expanding Markets, Welfare State Retrenchment, and Their Impact on Social Stratification.  Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag  [in German]

Reardon, Sean F., and G. Firebaugh (2002).  "Measures of Multigroup Segregation."  Pp. 33-67 in Ross Stolzenberg (editor), Sociological Methodology 2002.  Boston and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Firebaugh, G. ( 2000).  "Trends in Between-Nation Income Inequality."  Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 26:323-339.

Firebaugh, G.  (2000). "Observed Trends in Between-Nation Income Inequality, and Two Conjectures." American Journal of Sociology 106 (July): 215-221.

Firebaugh, G.  (1999).  "Empirics of World Income Inequality." American Journal of Sociology 104 (May): 1597-1630 [lead article]. (Reprinted). 

Firebaugh, G.  (1996).  "Does Foreign Capital Harm Poor Nations?  New Estimates Based on Dixon and Boswell's Measures of Capital Penetration."  American Journal of Sociology, 102 (September): 563-575.

Firebaugh, G. and Kevin Chen (1995). "Vote Turnout of Nineteenth Amendment Women: The Enduring Effect of Disenfranchisement." American Journal of Sociology  100 (January): 972-996.

Firebaugh, G. and Frank Beck (1994). "Does Economic Growth Benefit the Masses?  Growth, Dependence, and Welfare in the Third World."  American Sociological Review  59 (October):631-653. [lead article]

Firebaugh, G. (1992).  "Growth Effects of Foreign and Domestic Investment." American Journal of Sociology 98 (July):105-130. (Reprinted)

Firebaugh, G. (1989). "Methods for Estimating Cohort Replacement Effects."  Pp. 243-262 in Sociological Methodology 1989, edited by Clifford C. Clogg.  Oxford:  Basil Blackwell.